turquoise/ivory moretti effect

[rverk47]

i just love the look you get when you put turq and ivory together..the black circle that forms around the colors is great..does anybody know any other color combos that will do that..thx

[Cindy2]

Silverlake frit on ivory will do the same - watch it though, if you heat too much, you get too much brown and lose the blue/white! :-)

[kimberly]

Almost any of the reduction frits will do this on Effetre Ivory. Also Petroleum green, Grass Green, Copper Green and transparent Aqua. Red Roof tile is a color that is as reactive as Ivory. You can get rings on it, too, with most of the opaque greens, Turquoise, Purple (254), Copper Green.

A fun thing to do is make a long tube bead out of Ivory (or any "reactive" color), then put rings of the colors you want to test on the bead, melt in. If your tube bead is long enough, you can test many colors at once and know which ones will give you the effect you want. Lots of fun, good practice and you learn something everytime you do it.

[OSD]

Kimberly, that's a great idea!

I read a thread on this recently but forgot to bookmark it so just went on a search. It is on WetCanvas.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=95894&highlight=reacts

[Cosmo]

A lot of the ivory, yellow and red family of colors have that reaction with blues. I believe it has something to do with the ivory, yellow, etc. being colored with sulfur, and the blues being colored with copper.

I took a class last October with Alethia Donathan and she went pretty deep into it. She gave us a handout with a list of colors that would do that. I'll have to see if I can find it when I get home...

[Heather/Ericaceae]

Yup, it's a copper and sulphur reaction, mostly. Petroleum green, sky blue and turquoise all have copper to make them blue-green. Ivory and most of the reds, oranges and yellows have sulphur. You'll get the black outline, to greater and lesser degrees, whenever any glass from the copper family touches glass from the sulphur family. It can leave really nice crisp lines or it can turn everything brownish and mushy, depending on the intensity of the combo and how hot you work it - petroleum green + ivory = REALLY reactive, while sky blue + yellow = subtle. It's fun to play with these reactions - good luck!

-Heather

(edit - I was posting at the same time as you, Cosmo! :) )

[candylady19]

kim, thanks for the information, I'll have to go and try that out when i get home